Monitoring Weather in the Vicinity
of the Great Salt Lake
•Knowledge of how
weather affects the lake and vice
versa requires monitoring weather routinely:
–Protection of
life and property (boating safety)
–Ecological
impacts within the lake (wind transport of brine shrimp cysts, mechanical mixing of lake, heat exchange, precipitation/evaporation effects)
–Ecological
impacts in the vicinity of the lake (vegetation,
water sources, wind transport of insects)
–Lake effect
snowstorms